ISLAMABAD: A special court of Islamabad has granted bail to the former registrar Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC), Ahmed Nadeem Akbar in another case of forgery and corruption. It may be mentioned here that as many as 20 FIRs of corruption, irregularities, embezzlement of funds in various schemes and misuse of powers were registered against the former registrar Dr. Nadeem Akbar by police, FIA and NAB in 2013. The Special Judge Central, Malik Nazir, heard the bail plea of the former registrar PM&DC and accepted it against surety bonds worth Rs. one million. The FIA informed the court that Shifa International Hospital’s Doctor Nasiruddin Khokhar had allegedly been giving un-registered and wrong medicines to the patients and the former registrar PM&DC facilitated him in this wrongdoings by issuing fake experience certificates. The former registrar PM&DC was held by the FIA in another case of corruption on the same day when the PM&DC issued a notification to restore his services on December 1, this year. The PM&DC source told this scribe that the order was issued to award an important political figure having friendly terms with Ahmed Nadeem Akbar. Nadeem Akbar had been working on the post of PM&DC Registrar from 2007 to 2013. Cases were of corruption were registered against him in the PMDC building construction, irregularities in hiring new staff, and corruption in the recognition of medical colleges. According to the PM&DC sources, when he took over the charge of the Registrar’s Office in 2007, there were only 23 registered medical colleges in the country since inception, which reached to 87 in only five years. Most of the colleges included those that didn’t follow the PM&DC rules and criteria. Fake doctors were also registered — those that couldn’t clear the PMDC exam. According to sources, Dr. Ahmed Nadeem Akbar had been allegedly involved in issuance of bogus certificates to non-qualified doctors and grabbing over Rs 100 million per National Examination Board. The Ramana Police Station had registered a case against the ex-registrar under Section 420, 468, 471 and 499 PPC, against the above offence while the FIA Peshawar also registered a case against him. Sources revealed that the signatures of Dr. Ahmed Nadeem Akbar were also confirmed on bogus certificates through forensic reports. The NAB Rawalpindi authorised inquiries against the ex-registrar and others allegedly involved in corruption in recognition of sub-standard medical and dental colleges, issuance of bogus certificates to fake doctors, corruption in the construction of the the PMDC Headquarters building and accumulation of assets beyond the known sources of income. According to the NAB, Dr. Ahmed Nadeem Akbar was allegedly involved in corruption of Rs 100 million during his tenure and he, reportedly, also owns a Swiss Account. The ex-registrar was accused of cheating the PMDC and getting approval of recognition of 19 medical and dental colleges in a single day. On the basis of concrete evidence gathered by the NAB, the name of Dr. Ahmed Nadeem Akbar was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) to ensure the trial of his cases successfully. However, the President PMDC, Dr. Shabbir Lehri said that the former registrar was not posted as the Registrar PMDC, saying that he was just made an OSD. Ahmed Nadeem Akbar would be posted on the seat after he succeeds to get clearance in the corruption cases.